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The Vajramahābhairavatantra: Its origins, intertextuality, and transmission

, 2021
This thesis focuses on the Vajramahābhairavatantra, a seminal Buddhist tantra dedicated to the fear-inducing buffalo-headed Buddhist tantric deity Vajrabhairava (rdo rje ’jigs byed).
Wenta, Aleksandra
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Femininity in Tantric Buddhism: A Study of Sanmatrananda’s Nastik Panditer Bhita

Litinfinite Journal, 2020
Femininity is a part and parcel of various religious practices since time immemorial. Tantric Buddhism is one such religion that gives equal importance to its male and female practitioners. The honour and respect that women enjoyed in this religious sphere has been reflected in the content of the Bengali novel NastikPanditerBhita (2017) by ...
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“I Am Afraid of Telling You This, Lest You’d Be Scared Shitless!”: The Myth of Secrecy and the Study of the Esoteric Traditions of Bengal

Religions, 2018
As the verse chosen as a title for this article emblematically shows, esoteric movements have consistently used secrecy as a literary topos in their oral and written cultural expressions for a number of purposes.
Carola Erika Lorea
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The Rishukyo : A translation and commentary in the light of modern Japanese (post-Meiji) scholarship. [PDF]

, 1987
This thesis is a translation of and commentary on the Tantric Buddhist Master Amoghavajra (705-74)'s Li-clki Ching gag (Japanese: Rishukyo, Taisho: 243), the Prajparamita in 150 Verses.
Astley, Ian
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Tantric Literature

, 2010
The study of Buddhist tantric literature in the West is still in an early phase, as only a small minority of tantric literature, preserved in languages such as Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian, has been adequately edited and translated into ...
David Gray
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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
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Critical analysis of the Kularnava Tantra -Part 1- A foreword corrupted by repressed sexuality

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
This article was written to promote academic research on the Kularnava Tantra without the bias introduced by the "forewords" and introductions of the English and Spanish versions, which led to confusion regarding the object of study known as Tantrism ...
Oscar R. Gómez
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Bodies of Silence, Floods of Nectar: Ritual Music in Contemporary Brahmanical Tantric Temples of Kerala

, 2022
The Tantric concept of sound (nāda) as universal life-force has seen worldwide diffusion over the last few decades but such a fame does not reflect academic interest in the impact of Tantra on music.
Paolo Pacciolla, Pacciolla, Paolo
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Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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